Sigmund Freud Quotes about Religion

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Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is Thou shalt not question.

Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question."

Sigmund Freud

Reality, Confusion, Religion

"The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.

Sigmund Freud

Humanity, Religion, Atheism

Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Sigmund Freud

Father, Religion, Bottom

1927 The Future of an Illusion.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

Sigmund Freud

Science, Religion, Imagine

Religion (is) a universal obsessional neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

Religion, Neurosis, Psychiatry

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Childhood, Religion

SIGMUND FREUD “THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION”

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Men, Religion

1927 The Future of an Illusion.

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

Sigmund Freud

Enemy, Religion, Dangerous

The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.

Sigmund Freud

Religion, Kind, Share

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

Religious, Religion, Obsessive Compulsive

Sigmund Freud Quotes about Religion

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